

My hips don’t either, for I live under Shakira Law.


My hips don’t either, for I live under Shakira Law.


That’s what I was trying to put down, yes.


Matt Bernstein just did a podcast episode with Krystal Ball doing more or less that.
the Democratic Party functions as a containment architecture—a velvet noose
More accurate words are rarely spoken, and this artful descriptor is iconic.


There’s that too


Har. Probably not.
If this ‘friend’ is having ED issues the first stop is to your GP to get ‘their’ heart checked out.

Specifically they’d go after commercially available VPN’s used for privacy and anonymity, not in-house jobs done by companies. Taylor Lorenz had a piece on this recently.

Might need a few hops if they coordinate with the EU but it could be done.

What I’d assume they would do with minimal information is have an agent purchase a subscription at an intermediary country and block all known servers at the ISP level by constantly switching and logging. This is just off the top of my head though.
This one’s good for different reasons. It’s warmer, more realist, and the little lines on his shirt feel playful. If you pick this one up again the warmth and playfulness are great themes to expound on.
Omg I love the brushwork 😍
I think the eyes make him look vampiric because of the slightly yellow tone and slightly upturned lower eyelids…though the crimson tinges in his hair and deep contrast in his outfit might be part of it 😂 The face shadows too
Soundtrack includes chiptune renditions of songs by bands such as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.

Yeah the weapon-switching is a bit awkward but the racing combined with the combat make it absolutely beautiful. Doing it all at ridiculous speeds makes it that much more thrilling. There’s few video games that aren’t VR that can make you sweat but that’s absolutely one of them.


I honestly think he’s like 3 cheeseburgers away from a coronary. Whether that does him in or not remains to be seen, but he’s very visibly unhealthy, and has been looking worse and worse each week. At some point all the medical technology and wealth in the world becomes meaningless. Bodies are complex systems and effects can cascade: a heart attack might be fixable but surgeries to fix it might be fatal, especially to someone as old and unhealthy as he is.
I’m imagining the cigarette not even lit, it’s just his solidarity cig.


Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux
“Take three and call me in the morning”
-Luigi